Kudos to Mr. Ben Bleikamp for digging this one up. As quoted in a recent Lantern article about Radiohead:
According to WordPress.com, a leading global market research company, reported that in 2006, “legal digital music downloading was the fastest growing digital music category.”
Does that mean that nobody in the copy editing chain as EVER heard [...]
Category Archives: Newspapers
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Ohio State’s paper thinks Wordpress is a market research firm
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You’re handling young people all wrong
This week I am wrapping up my first week of classes in what will (hopefully) be my final year at college.
I have been through enough classes to know, what makes or breaks a class more than anything else is the professor. I have had professors who yell, prattle on, make off color comments, offer [...]
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Aug
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5 things I’d tell a future newsroom intern
I just wrapped up my summer internship. Overall, I’d say the classic cliches about internships: learned a lot about myself and the industry. I also learned a lot about how to get things done due to the nature of my particular situation (I had to create a site). Therefore, I had [...]
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Aug
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Google (kinda) gets it
According to news ’round the Web, Google is to allow comments by people involved in a given story.
Granted, I can’t see how the process of verification is going to be smooth, but it might be an interesting experiment in my theory that transparency spurs discussion and restores faith in the media.
In fact since I had [...]
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Aug
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Should news sites have comments?
One point of contention among journalists is the value of comments on news stories. There are various downsides:
1. They’re just nasty
I have noticed that on many stories at The News Journal, the comments are often racist, unintelligent, and downright mean on most occasions. Some would say having an thought provoking discussion around the [...]